[TW5] Need input on Interaction Matrix Functionality

[Remi van Loenen]

Hi all!

I'm in the process of using tiddly for creating Game Design Documents (GDD).
In a GDD a lot of game functionality is described, and to be more useful to my programmers I usually design Interaction Matrices(IM):
As an example I added this picture, an IM for PONG:

As you can see interaction behaviour can be described from cross referencing the available entities.
Now, what I want to do with tiddly is to describe entities as tiddlers, but I'm not sure if there is a way to describe the interaction between entities (and thus tiddlers), I was thinking of working with field values, but that's just a vague idea at this time.
Can anyone give me any pointers on where to look to make me be able to create this functionality?

Thanks, in high regards,

Remi

[Felix Küppers]

Hi Remi

but I'm not sure if there is a way to describe the interaction between entities (and thus tiddlers), I was thinking of working with field values, but that's just a vague idea at this time.

Not sure if it suits your case, but you can use TiddlyMap (http://tiddlymap.org) to describe the relationships between tiddlers. You can also use "magic edge types" if you want to store relationships as field values, but this means that you lose information when you rename tiddlers…

-Felix

[Eric Shulman]

On Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 8:18:54 AM UTC-8, Remi van Loenen wrote:

I'm in the process of using tiddly for creating Game Design Documents (GDD).
In a GDD a lot of game functionality is described, and to be more useful to my programmers I usually design Interaction Matrices(IM):

...

interaction behaviour can be described from cross referencing the available entities.

Now, what I want to do with tiddly is to describe entities as tiddlers, but I'm not sure if there is a way to describe the interaction between entities (and thus tiddlers), I was thinking of working with field values, but that's just a vague idea at this time.

Hi Remi,

Here's a bit of wiki syntax that will generate a table that works as an Interaction Matrix:

<table style="width:100%">
<tr>
   <td style="width:1%">&nbsp;</td>
   <$list filter="[tag[entity]sort[]]" variable="col">
      <td style="width:1%"><$link to=<<col>>>''<<col>>''</$link></td>
   </$list>
</tr>
<$list filter="[tag[entity]sort[]]" variable="row">
   <tr>
      <td style="width:1%"><$link to=<<row>>>''<<row>>''</$link></td>
      <$list filter="[tag[entity]sort[]]" variable="col">
         <td style="width:1%">
            <$transclude tiddler=<<row>> index=<<col>>>X</$transclude>
         </td>
      </$list>
   </tr>
</$list>
</table>

To populate the table, create tiddlers tagged with "entity".  In each tiddler, set the "type" to "application/x-tiddler-dictionary" and then enter lines of text using "name: text...." format, where the name is the title of another entity tiddler, and the text is the description of the interaction with that entity.  Something like this:

sidewall:

ball: when ball touches sidewall, ball bounces (reverse x-vector)
paddle: when paddle touches sidewall, paddle breaks for 5 seconds

frontwall:

ball: when ball touches frontwall, ball bounces (reverse y-vector)
paddle: when paddle touches frontwall, paddle breaks for 5 seconds

floor:

ball: when ball touches floor, ball bounces (reverse z-vector)

paddle:

ball: when ball touches paddle, ball bounces back in opposite direction

That should do it.

enjoy,

-e

Eric Shulman

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[Jed Carty]

You may be able to use the table macros I made to do what you want. They are here.

[Matabele]

Hi Jed

Missed that -- great macros -- many thanks.

[Remi van Loenen]

Wow! Thanks guys. Thanks for the useful replies, going to start working on them!

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